Thomas de Clare

Lord of Thomond

Events

Date of Birth:between 1244 and 1247

The estimated date is given by Frame (ODNB).

Date of Death: 29 August 1287.

The date is given by Frame (ODNB).

Relationships

Father: Richard de Clare (1222 - 1262), earl of Gloucester and of Hertford.

This relationship is given by Frame (ODNB) and by Altschul.

Mother: Maud, daughter of John de Lacy, earl of Lincoln.

This relationship is given by Frame (ODNB).

Spouse: Juliana (died 1300), daughter of Maurice fitz Maurice Fitzgerald.

This relationship is given by Hartland, by Frame (ODNB), and by Altschul.

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Gilbert de Clare (3 February 1281 - 1308) married Isabella.

Richard de Clare (died 1318) married Joanna, probably daughter of Thomas fitz Maurice.

Margaret de Clare (about 1286 - 1333) married (1) Gilbert de Umfreville; married (2) Sir Bartholomew Badlesmere.

Matilda de Clare (died 1327) married Robert Clifford, Lord Clifford on 12 November 1295.

References

Altschul, Michael. A Baronial Family in Medieval England: The Clares 1217-1314 (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1965).

Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59).

Frame, Robin. “Clare, Thomas de (1244x7-1287)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, October 2005).

Hartland, Beth. "English Lords in Late Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Century Ireland: Roger Bigod and the de Clare lords of Thomond" in English Historical Review Vol. CXXII No. 496 (2007).